Bill Text: NY A04099 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires certain bills which establish a commission, task force, board, council or any similar body shall have not less than one position appointed by each of the legislative leaders.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 24-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-16 - held for consideration in governmental operations [A04099 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A04099-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          4099
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 1, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of A. KOLB, BRABENEC, BLANKENBUSH, SMITH, MIKULIN --
          Multi-Sponsored by -- M.  of  A.  BARCLAY,  CROUCH,  DiPIETRO,  FINCH,
          FITZPATRICK,  FRIEND, GIGLIO, GOODELL, HAWLEY, McDONOUGH, RAIA, THIELE
          -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
        AN ACT to amend the legislative law, in  relation  to  bills  containing
          provisions  requiring appointments to be made by the legislative lead-
          ers
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The legislative law is amended by adding a new section 52-a
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  52-a.  Requirements  with  respect  to  bills containing provisions
     4  requiring appointments to be made by the legislature.   1. For  purposes
     5  of this section, the term "legislative leaders" shall mean the temporary
     6  president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the minority lead-
     7  er of the senate and the minority leader of the assembly.
     8    2.  Any  bill which establishes a commission, task force, board, coun-
     9  cil, or similar body, and which requires that a number of the members on
    10  such commission, task force, board, council,  or  similar  body  receive
    11  their  appointments  from  the legislature, shall have not less than one
    12  member appointed by each of the legislative leaders.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04181-01-9
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